Jake Adams
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Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.

Wifi LED tubes like netLED are not only coming, they’re inevitable

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0wnDCl_fsQ[/youtube] If you think that wifi enabled LED bulbs are outlandish, consider that ten years ago it would have been hard to believe that all of our home, auto and aquarium lights would be replaced by LEDs, and…

Eleutherobia ‘Fuzzy Carrot’ coral is a new maricultured NPS softy from Quality marine

As you may have guessed the yellow, orange but most often red colonies of Eleutherobia are non-photosynthetic, filter feeding fine particles from the water column. Some species of Eleutherobia Fuzzy Carrot coral occur in shallow water but only in caves or…

Marine Bacto Plankton from Tropic Eden is a new food for fine filter feeders

Bacto Plankton from Tropic Eden is a new food for filter feeders consisting of 15 types of live bacterioplankton. The particle size of Tropic Eden’s Live Marine Bacto Plankton ranges in size from 0.2 to 2.0 microns (1000 microns =…

First look at the Hydro Wizard Small in development by Panta Rhei

If the Hydro Wizard Medium is a pump for the 1% of reefers then maybe the Hydro Wizard Small might be one for 10% of us. A prototype of the Hydro Wizard Small does not yet exist in real life…

Red Sea reef fish beginning to trickle back into the aquarium trade

Red Sea reef fish were the pinnacle of aquarium fish provenance when we started keeping a marine aquariums in the nineties. For a decade orchid dottybacks, red sea pearlscale butterflyfish, broomtail wrasses and bicinctus clownfish seemed like staple aquarium fish that would…

JBJ Unibody 36, 54 and 108 makes for one happy family of LED aquarium lights

The JBJ Unibody 36 and Unibody 108 are smaller and larger iterations of the industrially machined LED reef light. The JBJ Unibody LED reef light hasn’t been shipping all that long but due to demand for the popular light, JBJ…

Watch Luiz Rocha’s presentation on the Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes

If you weren’t able to make it to last week’s Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes, fret not because this informative talk is already up and live on the interwebz. Dr. Luiz Rocha, the ichthyologist who has described for…

Kent Marine ProScraper II offers up an extendable reach

[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7J8c4K_nus[/youtube] The ProScraper II is the first follow up to the sturdy and practical Kent Marine ProScraper that we’ve come to know and love over more than a decade. Although we already have a small arsenal of ProScrapers…

CONIC Bio-reactor from CAD lights is a plug and play biopellet mixer

The CONIC Bio-Reactor from CAD Lights is a thoughtfully designed aquarium devices which is a lot more than just a nozzle in a tube. Like the CPR media reactors, the CONIC Bio-Reactor is endowed with a primary forceful flow to…